Spinjoy Society Megaways

Spinjoy Society Megaways: Slot Overview

After signing what Lady Luck Games calls a 'landmark licensing agreement with Big Time Gaming', the Stockholm-based provider has released its first Megaways slot titled Spinjoy Society Megaways. It's the type of intriguing name which may well pique interest to find out what sort of gaming might follow. Then again, studios often take it easy with their first Megaways slot, so expectations were also tempered by reality. As they say in the investment world, however, 'past performance isn't necessarily indicative of future results', so let's jump in and let Spinjoy Society Megaways do the talking.

The initial impressions were, okay, nothing mind-blowing at first glance. In Spinjoy Society Megaways, Lady Luck Games invites players to 'Enter the world of Spring', and one way they've done so is by sprinkling the corners of the screen with a selection of colourful flowers. The background is colourful as well, in that it switches from one colour to another at regular intervals. It is pretty simple, pleasant on the eyes, but simple; the studio's number one priority doesn't appear to be dazzling players visually with its first Megaways game.

Putting the sights of spring aside for a moment, let's wade through Spinjoy Society Megaways' more technical aspects. Number one on the checklist is RTP, which comes in at an even 96%, while volatility has been classed as high. Bet levels vary from a low of 10 p/c per spin up to a maximum of $/€100 paid game round, whilst players in most jurdisdictions also will have access to a bonus buy option. Any device can be used to play Spinjoy Society Megaways, which fires off a win at a frequency of 32.70%, or a little shy of 1 in 4.

To score a regular ways win, matching symbols must land from the left-hand side across at least three consecutive reels. Speaking of reels, what you get isn't necessarily a standard Megaways grid due to the absence of the horizontal tracker reel. It does utilize 6 reels, however, each holding up to 7 symbols, meaning up to 117,649 ways to win are possible when the grid is maxed out. For symbols, the game has daisy adorned 10-A royals as its low pays, awarding 0.8x the bet for six-of-a-kind, then lemons, grapes, cherries, plums, and watermelons as the highs, worth 1.5 to 4x the bet for a six symbol winning way. Unusually for a Megaways game, wild symbols are not present on the reels at any stage of play.

Spinjoy Society Megaways: Slot Features

Also slightly unusually, Spinjoy Society Megaways counts a coin win collect and gamble option as two of its features, along with more conventional extras such as cascades and free spins with a progressive multiplier.

Cascades

Each winning way or collected coin is removed from the reels by the cascade mechanic, letting symbols left on the reel strips fall into the gaps. Cascades continue to fire as long as new wins hit or new Coins are collected.

Coin Win

Coin symbols bearing values of 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 5x, or 10x the bet randomly land on any reel. When Piggy Bank Coin Collector symbols hit, each coin symbol's value is collected and awarded. If more than one Piggy Bank Coin Collector is on the reels, the win is multiplied by the number of Piggy Banks Coin Collectors in view. Piggy Banks Coin Collectors are not removed by the cascade feature.

Gamble Feature

After winning spins or features, players have the chance to increase their prize money (or not) with the gamble feature. To gamble, players guess the colour or suit of a face-down card. Get the colour right to double the win or quadruple the win for picking the right suit. Getting the gamble wrong loses the whole amount. Players can gamble up to four times each round.

Free Spins

Hitting 3 scatter symbols grants 10 free spins, plus a further 5 free spins for each extra scatter symbol on the reels. During this bonus round, a win multiplier is added, starting at x1 and increasing by +1 for each win, including coin collects. Coin wins also have the win multiplier applied to them. The final rule is that free spins cannot be retriggered.

Buy Bonus

Where available, players are able to buy the free spins bonus round. The three choices are 10, 20, or 30 free spins, costing 60x, 210x, or 450x the bet, respectively.

Spinjoy Society Megaways: Slot Verdict

Spinjoy Society Megaways is, in some ways, a return to Lady Luck Game's earlier roots. The reason is that one of the studio's first online slots, if not its first, was a game named Spinjoy Society. The Megaways version shares some similarities with the original slot while adding a few that weren't there before. Visually, the two games are quite comparable, using strong yet simple colour schemes and a sprinkling of flowers to decorate the screen. On the gaming side of things, however, the two slots are rather different.

While being somewhat unusual, Spinjoy Society Megaways isn't radically so. For one, its bonus round is a typical batch of free spins with an added progressive win multiplier. What's a little unorthodox for Megaways is the use of a coin symbol collect feature. In and of itself, it isn't new, but coin collects don't pop in a Megaways game every other day. For that reason, it might be worth picking up Spinjoy Society Megaways for a look if you consider yourself a Megaways completist. To be fair, some okay hits were achieved via coin wins in the bonus round with a win multiplier on board. Nothing major during testing, yet with an advertised 20,000x max win tag, impressive returns appear to be theoretically possible while playing Spinjoy Society Megaways.

In all, Spinjoy Society Megaways was an okay debut Megaways game from Lady Luck Games. It might not shake the genre to its core but obtaining a licence from Big Time Gaming is a way of sending a few ripples out through the industry. It wasn't a major surprise to see Lady Luck Games revisiting an older game; that's not an unheard-of debut move, as is playing it fairly cautiously the first time around. Now the Megaways cat is out of the bag, let's wait and see how the studio follows up.